Examples of reproach

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One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless, leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics.
One of the other reproaches that is rightly made of other authors' analyses is that nationalism is usually treated as 'an isolated, fixed political programme'.
He deals with faults, and reproaches some of his contemporaries in several famous passages.
Is the fact that, in the modern and contemporary periods, people have pervasively been reproached for their religious beliefs, of no real interest to philosophers ?
Her reproaches fell so hot and heavy, that they left me no chance to answer.
He is reproached for pursuing his egotistic interests and striving to secure social privileges.
I reproached him that he had ruined me.
I expressed doubts, and reproached her with not having kept sufficiently accurate measurements.
Both reproaches are faulty in that they blame the method for not compensating for the incomplete quality of the data.
Of course, such semantic attention could be reproached for being a retreat from what is concrete within consumption: its potential for quantification.
If his work kept him late for a meal, he had satirical reproaches cast upon his head by the landlady.
She reproaches him and dismisses him.
The consumer was reproached for 'social short-sightedness'.
If this view were adopted, there would be no point in praising someone for meritorious conduct; there would similarly be no point in reproaching him for misconduct.
The authors, all of post-processual conviction, defend themselves against the reproach of hanging on an unreflected relativism.
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